The annual Humanities Career Event and the Campus The Hague Career Event, organized by Humanities Career Service, once again captivated scores of enthusiastic and inquisitive students on April 10th.
LUGO, the green office of Leiden University, recently finished the transformation of the Schouwburgstraat community garden. The official festive opening will take place on May 8, between 15.00 and 17.30.
On March 22nd at precisely 16.45h, we excitedly opened the doors of Wijnhaven’s biggest lecture hall and watched more than 400 students and staff members stream into the many increasingly cramped rows of our long-awaited ‘North Korea Event’. At the grand desk below between the busy-looking organizers from BASIS, four calm and concentrated people in suits were checking their speeches and presentations one last time. Dressed in modest black, two representatives of the South Korean NGO PSCORE and one translator, seemed to direct the audience’s attention to the woman dressed in bright red. A peculiar prominence for all of us in International Studies knowing of the unprecedented enigma of the country of her childhood, family, and home – The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
Let’s start with a quiz; what do Johan Sebastian Bach, Vincent van Gogh and Jackie Chan have in common? Can you guess the answer?
On the 9th of February, students from many different programmes gathered in the Beehive to celebrate the coming new year according to the Chinese lunar calendar. The Faculty of Humanities, Study Advisers of Urban Studies and International Studies (BA), the Student Counsellor and the University China advisor and coordinator organized this event to commemorate the Chinese Lunar New Year and address the well-being of international students at Leiden University. This event was primarily intended to foster inclusivity and a sense of community among the international students while also celebrating Chinese culture.
It is always an exciting moment when we see the results of the area and language choices of our new cohort of first-year students. This year, there are some interesting developments.
When Sjoerd van Trigt, a student of International Studies, is not in the lecture hall, you can find him at Rowing Club Asopos de Vliet. He trains there seven times a week. Soon, he will be leaving for a six-month stay in Japan.
Where you study is as important as how you study. Having a quiet and comfortable corner to fully concentrate, makes all the difference when you have to read, analyse and write. Contrary to the popular life style guru Mary Kondo’s philosophy of minimalism, the new interior design trend of 2024 is focusing on aesthetically pleasing interiors, including presenting abundant book collections in what is called ‘Book Shelf Wealth’.* The idea is that you showcase your books (read or unread) by size, author or jacket cover colour. Many appealing images of nicely arranged book collections are circulating on social media.**
Finding solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the not-inconsiderable task of the new Peace Academy in The Hague. Professor Maurits Berger and twelve students from different conflict zones are starting a creative thinking process that aims to discover the basic conditions for peace in the Middle East.
From a queer art exhibition to a podcast about people with disabilities, the JEDI Fund this year again honored several projects that contribute to diversity and inclusion.